Removing my name from a personal homepage

[mtngoat]

In high school.(83) i had a very good friend,who is now gay.in his personal homepage, my name can be found. now he is gay. and he does not try to hide it. My Problem is. since he is Gay,i dont want MY NAME associated any which way. with him, his business or just the fact that he is GAY. i asked him to remove my name. and he said no. now what can i do, if any. to have my name removed. and can i sue? Darren@darrennye or darrennye.com. thanks [email protected]

 

[lawrat]

First of all, what era are you living in? Just because your name is on a homepage of someone with a different sexual orientation doesn't make you that sexual orientation. Secondly, people are people. What are you afraid of?

If you really want your name off, tell him it is an intrusion on your privacy and as such he can be sued. I don't know what state you are from, so I can't cite a specific code for you.

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[mtngoat]

Homepage- lawrat

Im from Ga. and the person who posted the Homepage is from N.J.The only thing, i'm "afraid of" is the fact. that he is gay. and i don't want my name aassociated with the Homosexual community.

 

[mary hartman]

Gooly gee mt goat u a redncek from geooorgia...

Yeehah!@!!!


Now i know you listen to "The Rock" and he says, gay people are Americans just like u

 

[mtngoat]

SOUNDS TO ME. LIKE EVERYONE HERE.IS SAME SEX FRIENDLY.AFRAID TO STAND UP TO,THE MINORITY'S.

 

[LL]

I support your right to control the use of your name.

If this guy is really a friend, why don't you ask him to remove your name.

 

[paulras]

mtngoat - I'm surprised you refered to him as a "friend". Sounds like you split that friendship only because he is gay. Either way, I can't understand why you think the entire gay community is reading one personal homepage and somehow forming an opinion about you, a guy who lives 1,000 miles away from your "friend." But it's your prerogative.

Why don't you simply approach this as "I do not want you as a friend anymore because somehow you are now my sworn enemy since I cannot change my preconceived notions about your sexual orientation. I will never change and if I had a son or daughter who was born gay, I would kill it. Now take my name off your page or I will spend countless hours and dollars fighting to force you to take it off because I'm afraid that someone out of the 12 people in NJ who will look at your page will drive down to Dixieland and turn me into a flaming drag queen like I heard on the school playground when we were young."

I believe this is what is called standing up to the minority (FYI: non-gay-friendly people are the minority in 2001 - at least in the USA. Maybe you should try moving to another country.)

Oh, and if that doesn't work, try mentioning nicely that it's a violation of privacy and you don't want to have to take any sort of legal action that you two should just be able to handle yourselves.